Among wage and salary employees working in non-farm establishments, nearly a quarter (22.5%) were employed in one of these 10 occupations in 2013:

117,000 North Carolina employees were members of a union in 2013 and another 184,000 were represented by unions. Together, this represents 301,000 employees or 7.8% of all wage and salary employees in non-farm establishments who are represented by a union. Arkansas has the lowest rate of employees represented by a union (7.6%); New York has the highest rate (50%).

Among North Carolina’s 3.1 million full-time, civilian workers between the ages of 18 and 64 in 2013:

1.5 million or 47% participated in a pension plan at work; nationally, 49% of full-time civilian workers age 18 to 64 participate in a pension plan at work. An additional 210,000 or 7% of employees work at an employer that offers a pension plan, but are not included in it.

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The civilian labor force excludes individuals employed in the Armed Forces. Data on employer-sponsored health insurance and pension participation are from the 2013 March Current Population Survey and were retrieved from IPUMS-CPS. All other data used in this post were retrieved from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.